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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What contemporary pianist of Teresa Carreno called her a "goddess" despite her lack of discipline?
2. Whose austere Russian appearance produced organized, impeccably delivered serious sonorities with musical elegance and exquisitely finished phrases?
3. What Australian pianist hiked to concerts with a knapsack and was one of the most gifted pianists of the 20th century?
4. Who was world exponent of ultra-avant-garde pianism because he could read the new printed notes that required playing simultaneously piano keyboard, sounding board and strings, tape recorder and kazoo?
5. Who won the Leventritt competition in 1954, but his victory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 made his name and musical competition well-known?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on music?
2. What American pianists does Schonberg describe in Chapter XXXVIII, Made in America?
3. How does the author describe the correlation between pianists and composers in Chapter XXVI, Composers at the Keyboard?
4. Who was Isaac Albeniz? Describe his early career.
5. What advances and contributions did Glenn Gould bring to musical presentation?
6. Describe Harold Bauer's American debut. What is noted of the pianist's style?
7. Who was Vladimir de Pachmann? What was his expertise and namesake?
8. What was the critical and public response to Busoni's performances?
9. Who represented Schnabel's German/Austrian legacy in music? How is the German school described?
10. When did Glenn Gould retire? What emotional disturbances did he suffer from?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the processes of piano manufacturing change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? What impact did this have on the piano's popularity?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the biographies and works of Johann Hummel and Ignaz Moscheles. What does "bravura" style mean and who was known for it?
Essay Topic 3
When did the romantic upheaval take place in music and where? What world events led to the break with classicism? How is this transition defined in other art forms?
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